(With the financial support of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ryerson University / Avec le soutien financier de l’Université Ryerson, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures)

Shoshannah Ganz (Memorial University): “Now I am Become Death”: Japanese and Canadian Industrial Contamination in Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle, and Jonathan Campbell’s Tarcadia

Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan): In Search of Lost Time: Space, Time, and the Natural World in Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel

Misao Dean (University of Victoria): The Nationalization of Nature: Morning on the Lievre

Jenny Kerber (Wilfrid Laurier University): Corrosive Aesthetics: On the Receiving End of Oil and Gas in Who By Fire

(Financial support for this event was provided by McGill-Queen’s University Press,
With the support of the Canadian Literature Centre (CLC) at the University of Alberta,
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation,
and the Research Project « Bodies in Transit: Making Difference in Globalized Cultures” /
Avec le soutien financier de McGill-Queen’s University Press,
Le Centre de littérature canadienne (CLC) de l’Université de l’Alberta,
La Fondation Trudeau,
et le projet de recherche « Bodies in Transit : Making Difference in Globalized Cultures”)